Moving from Fedora to Ubuntu - am I doing the right thing?

[Knapp]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
>> Like it or hate it *ubuntu is on top and that means that if there is a
>> breeding edge piece of software out there then it has been compiled
>> for *ubuntu. It has been a real winner for me because it is so easy to
>> use. I used Gentoo and ya it boots fast and runs fast but the time
>> taken to keep it up does not match the free time I have because Ubuntu
>> takes care of it for me. EI, ubuntu is easy to use and does the jobs
>> well.
>>
>> I have yet to find something that I can't make run on Ubuntu without
>> much fuss and I run 64 bit.
>>
>>
>
> I very much disagree that it's 'on top'.  Popular, perhaps, on top?  I
> know /many/ more people running Fedora than I do ubuntu of any flavor.
> It /is/ a good desktop version.  But I certainly wouldn't call it the
> best distro out there.
>
> But then, I've been in the linux world since slackware 3, so what do I know.
>
>
> --
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>
>
> Mark Haney

Distro watch hit ranking last 6 months. I will not get into a debate
about the meaning of these stats but a simple glance shows it on top
and it has been on top for a long time with brief losses when some
distro does something new. Then add in Kubuntu and Xubuntu and you see
it way on top. Fidora is at about 50% of Ubuntu. I never said best, by
the way.

Rank  	Distribution  	H.P.D*
1 	Ubuntu 	2289<
2 	openSUSE 	1839>
3 	Mint 	1390>
4 	Fedora 	1342>
5 	PCLinuxOS 	1106>
6 	Debian 	1048>
7 	Mandriva 	961<
8 	Dreamlinux 	622<
9 	Damn Small 	615<
10 	Sabayon 	599<
11 	CentOS 	567=
12 	Slackware 	527<
13 	Kubuntu 	482<
14 	Puppy 	480=
15 	Arch 	460=
16 	Gentoo 	455<
17 	MEPIS 	442>
18 	FreeBSD 	410<
19 	gOS 	400>
20 	Zenwalk 	375<
21 	PC-BSD 	347>
22 	KNOPPIX 	340<
23 	Vector 	331=
24 	sidux 	325<
25 	Xubuntu 	288=

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Douglas E Knapp

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